A5020172670- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Physical Activity and Health
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Noise Effects and Management
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Rabies epidemiology and control
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Community Health and Development
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
Public Health Agency of Canada
2017-2024
University of Calgary
2015-2024
Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta
2024
Alberta Children's Hospital
2024
Waseda University
2020-2023
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2023
Electrovaya (Canada)
2021
University of Southern Denmark
2018
The University of Western Australia
2003-2016
The Kids Research Institute Australia
2016
Judgments concerning features of environments do not always correspond accurately with objective measures those same features. Moreover, perceived and objectively assessed environmental attributes, including proximity destinations, may influence walking behavior in different ways. This study compares distance to several destinations examines whether correspondence between is influenced by age, gender, neighborhood walkability, behavior. Distances most close home are overestimated, whereas...
Active school transport (AST) has declined rapidly in recent decades. While many studies have examined walking, cycling to received very little attention. Correlates of are likely differ those from walking and enables AST further distances. This study individual, social environmental factors associated with among elementary school-aged children, stratified by gender. Children (n = 1197) attending 25 Australian primary schools located high or low walkable neighborhoods, completed a one-week...
Background. Efforts to increase the prevalence of children’s active school transport require evidence inform development comprehensive interventions. This study used a multilevel ecological framework investigate individual, social, and environmental factors associated with walking from among elementary school-aged children, stratified by gender. Method. Boys aged 10 13 years ( n = 617) girls 9 681) attending 25 Australian primary schools located in high or low walkable neighborhoods...
Associations between access to local destinations and children’s independent mobility (IM) were examined. In 2007, 10- 12-year-olds ( n = 1,480) their parents 1,314) completed a survey. Children marked on map the they walked or cycled 1,132), availability of was assessed using Geographic Information Systems. More independently mobile children traveled than other children. The odds IM more halved in both boys girls whose reported living busy road (boys, OR 0.48; girls, 0.36) who lived near...
The public health emergency response to the COVID-19 virus has involved physical distancing strategies reduce person-to-person transmission. Pandemics, including COVID-19, may influence changes activity and sedentary behaviours among children. However, role of parent anxiety related on children's yet be explored. purpose this study was examine associations between school-aged children (5–17 years) and; describe these behaviour patterns in relation response. Between April June 2020, a random...
Walkability is a popular term used to describe aspects of the built and social environment that have important population-level impacts on physical activity, energy balance, health. Although widely by researchers, practitioners, general public, multiple operational definitions walkability measurement tools exist, there are no agreed-upon conceptual definition walkability.
Abstract High-quality sleep is an important factor in sustaining health and improving well-being. Previous evidence has demonstrated the positive associations between increased physical activity reduced sedentary behaviour (SB) with quality. The substitutional relationships SB, light-intensity (LPA), moderate-to-vigorous (MVPA) need to be considered when examining how a particular may impact No studies, our knowledge, have explored these middle-aged adulthood. Using isotemporal substitution...
There has been a growing interest in the "metaverse," and discourse about how this platform may contribute to different fields of science is already beginning emerge. In paper, we discuss key opportunities uncertainties metaverse might advancing knowledge interdisciplinary field built environment public health aimed at reducing noncommunicable diseases.
The association between neighbourhood walkability and children's independent mobility using an ecological approach is relatively unexplored. In 2007, 1480 10- to 12-year-old children (and 1314 parents) attending low high walkable schools across Perth, Western Australia, completed surveys. Objective built environment, social-cultural individual-level factors were explored. High predicted girls' mobility. However, girls boys more likely be independently mobile if they their parents confident...
Self-reported and objectively-determined neighborhood built characteristics are associated with physical activity, yet little is known about their combined influence on walking. This study: 1) compared self-reported measures of the environment between low, medium, high walkable neighborhoods; 2) estimated relative associations walking and; 3) examined extent to which moderates association A random cross-section 1875 Canadian adults completed a telephone-interview postal questionnaire...
The neighbourhood environment may play an important role in diet quality. Most previous research has examined the associations between food and quality, socioeconomic status quality separately. This study investigated independent joint effects of relation to Canadian adults. We undertook a cross-sectional with n = 446 adults Calgary, Alberta (Canada). Individual-level data on socio-demographic health-related characteristics were captured from two self-report internet-based questionnaires,...
Many characteristics of urban parks and neighbourhoods have been linked to patterns physical activity, yet untangling these relationships promote increased levels activity presents methodological challenges. Based on qualitative quantitative data, this article describes within the socio-demographic park visitors. It also accounts for in relation attributes their surrounding neighbourhoods. A multiple case study was undertaken that incorporated data derived from first-hand observation a...